Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-08-05
San Francisco Letter.
Special Correspondence Of the Standard.

SAN FRANCISCO, July "a, 1887.
Despite Abraham Lincoln's procla
nation to the contrary, slavery, of q
certain sort. still lives among us. All
You, sixteen-year old Chinese girl
intelligent. and, considering that she
belongs to race not remarkable fol-
good looks, rather pretty, furnishes a
case in point. She says that she is a
native of Canton, where, last year, she
was betrothed to man, whom, after
the manner of her people, she had
never seen. Soon afterward the man
who had arranged the details of hel
betrothal, went to her, in the absence
OF her mother, and under pretence o
taking her to her intended husband
induced her to 60 on board a ship
and carried her to San Francisco
crying" she asserts, call the way
here. According to her tale, she was
sold to the proprietor of a house on
the corner of Fish Alley and Wash.
ington street for $3.50. Here she re-
remained until yesterday when, afte,
signally failing to rescue her by ap.
pealing to the courts, the Rev. F. j
Masters, OF the Methodist Mission
drove to the end of the street, where
the girl was waiting for him, and de.
liberately kidnapped her again, only
with her own consent this time. She
was in the Mission House, but has
been sent back to China.
Much interest has been aroused in
San Francisco by the action of the
State Board of Forestry, which has
been in session here for some days.
The Board proposes to establish posts
in different parts of the State to pre-
vent the useless and malicious destruc-
ton Of trees by fire and axe. These
posts could also be empowered to stop
the ruthless and illegal slaughter of
game and fish. 1t was suggested that
similar protective agencies might be
organized in Washington Territory
and the State Of Oregon.
A convention Of dentists, at which
most of the talent which the Pacific
Coast possesses to enable a man to
masticate his food comfortably after
nature or accident has impoverished
his gums, was in session in San
Francisco nearly all of last week.
It was chiefly remarkable from the
heroically scientific behavior of DR..
Hayes, who allowed one of his asso-
ciates to bore hole in his jaw bone,
and insert handsome tooth into the
cavity. The drops of perspiration
stood thickly upon his brow during
the operation, but he refused to take
ether, because he desired to be able to
describe his sensations to his brother
dentists. He said the lancing of the
gums was the most painful part of the
process, but he admitted that it was
all pretty trying. Several ladies were
present, and one of them, whose lips
were red and ripe, her teeth white and
firm, and her breath fragrant with
sozodont, remarked, with some con.
tempt, that if the dentist had taken
the same care of his teeth that she
had with hers he would not have been
called upon to suffer in the cause of
science.
Whales, for some days past, have
been quite numerous in the waters
around the Golden Gate, and excur-
sionists, going on fishing trips, or to
places of interest, have been treated
to the novel sight Of the monsters
spouting close to their boat. A few
hardy old fishermen have gone in pur-
suit, and already some profitable cap
lures have been made. Several sharks,
also, have been captured in the bay,
and one of them, q man-eater sixteen
feet long. contained in his capacious
stomach pretty nearly all the young
HOLSTERS that our enterprising fish-com-
missioners recently planted near the
Preside. The lobster is delicate fish /;
but the shark seems to be an epicure.
OCCASIONAL.